Flickr - Parasite

Parasite, originally uploaded by Peter Hajas.

One of my favorite shots, this one was a real sacrifice (I'm serious here!)

I had to actually let this thing suck out my blood for about 4 minutes before I grabbed this shot. As I'm using a point-and-shoot camera, it's very hard to get the correct focal length, so it's sort of me wrestling with "Macro" mode on the Canon Powershot SD850 IS. Anyways, check out the shot! This was the mosquito practically full of blood. The shot taken about half a second after this was just my bare hand, so I was lucky to grab this one before she flew away!